The book nobody finished
Whitehead published Process and Reality in 1929. Almost nobody read it. 351 pages of metaphysics in prose that makes Hegel seem breezy. It proposes something that rearranges every assumption behind the God debate: reality is not made of things....
The lure
Whitehead finished Process and Reality in 1929. Almost nobody made it through. The ones who did came out changed.
The core insight is simple to state and difficult to absorb: the universe is not made of things. It is made of events....